Things I'm Loving

We have been playing a lot of games with BJ.  We really enjoy that half hour or so before bed with him.  It is also amazing to see the benefits it gives him.  We have had a lot of number games & he is becoming quite good at numbers & recognizing a dice amount & so on.

So games we are loving right now are...

Bug trails - This is a bit like dominoes but with 6 legs to match.  This is actually one of my favourites to play as it is quite different.  You can only play your turn on the previous bug that has been put down.   It's also a really good price at this place.  Parentdirect.com.au.

Bus Stop - this is from the same place.  Really good for adding & subtracting.  What I like about this is that it isn't the first person to the bus station to win.  Each player goes back to the station & the person with the most on his bus at the end is the winner.  It's cool.

Skip Bo Junior - I had never played Skip Bo before but I know my sister loves it.  I saw this in the toy shop recently & thought it looked good.  Plus the pictures on the cards are cute!  It's been really good fun.  I think this has become my second favourite.

Richard Scarry's Cars & Trucks game - This is one I picked up locally some time ago & it is a really good one for a quick game when you don't have long to play.  Plus it's another good number game which has been good for BJ.

DJ doesn't play much yet.  He tries.  Still a bit little.  But he does like

Tumbling Monkeys - we like this especially as I got it at an op shop really cheap!  But DJ just loves poking the sticks in & out & making the monkeys fall.

Sorry about the lack of pictures.  I am computer less right now so using where & when I can.

Have you got any good games you play?  Any with letters that can help with alphabet?

Linking up with Meghan.

And Another Quilt

I have to say it!  I adore this fabric!  It is Pure by Sweetwater.  From a couple of years ago.  I got the jelly roll from work.  I am not sure if I was working there at the time or not.  But I got it.  The pattern is from the book Jelly Roll Inspirations.  This is my favourite book of all the Pam & Nicky Lintott books.  

I did this quilt top 2 years ago almost.  I know that as I gave it to Stuart for our 20th Wedding Anniversary!  hmmm...  I can finally say it's complete.  Yay!  I love it.  It's beautiful.  Definitely a favourite.  It was good to give it too him, as that way it stays in the house.  (ulterior motive!  Of course! )

I seem to have a love of all things Sweetwater as the quilt top I made the other week was with their Reunion fabric.  I also have a little of their newer one Road 15.  I have something in mind for that when I buy a little more.  I won't at this stage buy a lot of it.  I am being good.  Trying at least!  

So that's that one.  Another of my long list of things to do this year.  

BJ's Animals!

Wow!  I am excited!  I showed the assembling of this the other week.  & now...

TA-DAH

It's done!  It's taken a week of hand stitching at times on the binding.  Really hard work in a heatwave last week.  But it's done!  I am so pleased with it.  I am really rapt with the colours & rapt with the borders I found for it.  Darn it I forgot to take a picture of the label on it.  Yes the label is on too.  So yay, one quilt done. 

Brandon is really pleased with it.  

Saturday Stash Sewing

It's amazing what you can get done on a day when it is too hot to be outside at 9.30am & when your computer doesn't work! ( Ekkk...  still working on fixing that with fingers & toes crossed.  So this will be minimal blogging for now.  Darn that.  Just praying some stuff can be saved!) 

Anyway, Saturday I decided to use up this bunch of fat quarters that were in the cupboard taking space up & not really my style anymore.  There are some that are quite a few years old.  I did quite some chopping though.  (my shoulder is still telling me I did too much!) 

I had seen this pattern for the Stack & Slash quilt.  Not too hard by the look of that!  So I went to it.  Spent a hot day cutting, sewing, stacking & slashing.  & wow, for a stack of old fashioned florals that are a bit dated it came up quite well.  I am really pleased with how it came out that is for sure!  I am extra pleased at how I have used up a was of fabric!   I don't know when it will move from quilt top stage but that doesn't matter right now.  It is giving me much fun just using & sewing.  The quilt top piecing is the fun part for me anyway! 

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1.  Games of Skip Bo Junior.  This boy is good at number games. 
2.  Showing off the pumpkin. 

Won't link today as I am late. 

Things I'm Loving

Afternoon heat got to the little guy on the floor.  

Lovely summer beach time.  We aren't water people really so it's quite something for us to hang out there.  

 

Laying down playing trains... it must be good down at that level...  or he was tired after the beach & from the heat.  

Finally getting some nights out on the deck for tea!  

Something was blowing up!  & he does the actions & noises.  

Whispering to the little one...  Not that the little one has a clue, he just agrees with everything anyway!  

Joining in with Meghan.  

See What I Mean?

I said the other day I wanted to get my quilting done.  I need to get it done & out of the way of the dining room & back to it's corner.  

When I quilt I use this big extension table thingy that Stuart made me a number of years back.  It just gives me a bigger flat surface to run the quilt on.  It works quite well.  It hasn't got fancy smooth edges or anything so it gets caught on the front at times but I can live with that for the little bits I do.  It's also really quite heavy!  So each night at tea time I would move it so we could eat, but leave the machine sitting there.  So I wanted to return things to normal as soon as possible.  

I have packed it up today!  Yay.  What a relief to have my stuff back in it's place again.  I don't like spreading it out too far around the house!  lol